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David Alan Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter.

✵ 30. November 1966  •  Other names ניקולס דייוויד
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One Day
One Day
David Nicholls
Us
Us
David Nicholls
Starter for Ten
Starter for Ten
David Nicholls
One Day
One Day
David Nicholls
Us
Us
David Nicholls
Starter for Ten
Starter for Ten
David Nicholls
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Famous David Nicholls Quotes

“Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“So - whatever happened to you?'
'Life. Life happened.”

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Source: One Day

“For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must….”

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“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Variant: Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
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“The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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David Nicholls Quotes about life

“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Variant: You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Source: One Day

“I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“… if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of Confidence. Either that or a scented candle.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Variant: You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
Source: One Day

“As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.”

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David Nicholls Quotes about love

“Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“I love you is an interesting phrase, in that apparently small alterations–taking away the I, adding a word like lots or loads–render it meaningless.”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

“And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?”

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David Nicholls: Trending quotes

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

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“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

David Nicholls Quotes

“If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.”

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“I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“I think reality is overrated.”

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“You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay… That’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty-four.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.”

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“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?”

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“Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you”

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“Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy”

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“He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?”

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“Dont run before you can walk”

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“Envy was just the tax you paid on success.”

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“… Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“Today. This bright new day that awaits us”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Variant: Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
Source: One Day

“Things should look right, Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“Maybe we've grown out of each other.”

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“Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“So do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?'
'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.'
'Do girls like idiots then?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost….”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

“In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.”

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“All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.”

David Nicholls book Starter for Ten

Source: Starter for Ten

“Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“… and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind”

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“This isn't a letter, it's a gift.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?”

David Nicholls book Starter for Ten

Source: Starter for Ten

“Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose I you phone first.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

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